The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


One week from to-day the election vii
be held.
The total number of voters registered fol-
| Mobiles is 1928.
Two prisoners were brought down from
Maui by the Likelike.
The Rev. W. c. Merritt preached at Fort
street church yesterday.
Don't forget to read Seaborne Luce's new
| advertisement in another column.
The Blue Ribbon entertainments Will be
resumed next Saturday evening.
a meeting of the Hawaiian Ramie Com
pany will De held at one oclock to-day.
THE w. G. Hall sails at ten o'clock to-
morrow morning for Maui and Hawaii.
The Rev. Alex. and Mrs Macintosh
have returned from a months rusticating
! at Waikiki.
! The German Musical Society will here
| after rehearse at the rooms of Engine
| Company No. l.
| An adjourned mass meeting was held at
the Kaumakapili Church Saturday night,
| Nothing new was said.
There was base ball match Saturday
morning at Makiki between teams from
the Vandalia and Adams.
The Y. NJ. C. A. bookkeeping class meets
this evening at O'Clock. As Mr. =.
Jones is home no doubt he will be present.
The Anglican Church Chronicle 8" for
September made its appearance on Satur-
day and is an exceedingly interesting num-
Der.
What was the matter with the lamps last
night? 1t was SO dark on Beretania street
that people going to church ran into each
other.
The steamship City of New York is due
here on Thursday en- route to Yokohama
and Hongkong. Messrs. Hackfeld &; Co.
are the agents. g.
At Buffalo, n. Y, August 18th, John S.
Bishop of Hancock, Mich, late of Homo
lulu, was married to Miss Alice Moore of
Waikiki, Maui.
On August 22nd the Rev. J. A. Cruzan
read a paper on Hawaiian religion before
the San Francisco Congregational Club at
the Baldwin Hotel.
MIR. H. NJ. Whitney publisher of the !
Gazette" left on the bark Sarah Ridgway
On Saturday for Port Townsend for the |
benefit of his health. I
Mr.. S. D. Fuller, ne Central Secretary OF
the Y. NJ. G. a. returned ron Hawaii |
yesterday, looking about three teet taller. |
He has ut f"ttened up much.
The San Francisco Examiner of |
August 25th says Mrs. HaalaIea, Miss
Coney and William Coney of Honolulu
are the guests of DR.. and Mrs. Tremble OF
Oakland"
at noon to-day Mr.. James +. Morgan,
the auctioneer, will sell at the front door
OF AliioIani Hale the sugar estate known as
the Hama Plantation. at the same hour
at his salesroOms will be sold piece of
land situated on Nuuanu Avenue.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company is
negotiating for several fast British stea-
ners, with which to compete with vessels
Of the Canadian Pacific. Two of the new
steamers will probably be placed on the
inc before the end OF the year. 1t is said
to be possible to :" axe the trip from Yoke
hama in one day less than the Canadian
steamers.
On August 18th at Stonebridge, England,
William B. Page of the Manhattan
Athletic Club n. Y. achieved the height of
lis ambition by clearing feet 81 inches in
he running high jump. This beats the
worlds record held by P. DAWN of Ireland {
~ "a of an inch. Page is 211< years of /
Lge, 5 feet 634 inches in height and weighs T
40 pounds. !
Trustees of San Diego for franchise to
,uild a new wharf. The proposed wharf f
will be about 2,0OOft. long. A bonded ware 7
lOuse will also be built and regular ship
ing business established there. There are
lready eight ships on their way from
England for San Diego consigned to
preckels Bros The new wharf has no
onnection whatever with the scheme of
unning line of steamers between San t
)ieg0 and Australia. t